General Bibliography for English 334: The Eighteenth Century

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General Bibliographies:

Donald Frederic Bond, The Eighteenth Century. Northbrook: AHM Pub. Corp., 1975.

Henry Victor Dyson. Augustans and Romantics, 1689-1830. London: Cresset Press, 1961.

Roger D. Lund, Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature, 1660-1740: a Selected Bibliography of Resource Materials. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1980.

General Studies:

Paula R. Backscheider, Probability, Time, and Space in Eighteenth-Century Literature. New York: AMS Press, 1979.

Charles Batten, Pleasurable instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth-Century Travel Literature. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1978.

Martin C. Battestin, The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932.

Richard Charles Boys, Ed. Studies in the Literature of the Augustan Age: Essays Collected in Honor of Arthur Ellicott Case. New York, Gordian Press, 1966.

Louis I. Bredvold, The Natural History of Sensibility. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1962.

R. F. Brissenden, Studies In The Eighteenth Century; Papers Presented At The David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968.

Bertrand H. Bronson, Facets of the Enlightenment; Studies in English Literature and its Contexts. Berkeley, Univeristy of California Press, 1968.

* Paul Fussell, The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke.

Paul Fussell, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England. Hamden: Archon Books, 1966.

J. C. D. Clark, Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Margaret Anne Doody, The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered. New York : Cambridge University Press.

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Acts Of Implication: Suggestion And Covert Meaning In The Works Of Dryden, Swift, Pope, And Austen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Irvin Ehrenpreis, Literary Meaning And Augustan Values. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1974.

James Engell, Forming The Critical Mind: Dryden To Coleridge. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Hoxie Neale Fairchild, The Noble Savage; A Study In Romantic Naturalism. New York, Russell & Russell, 1961.

Moira Ferguson, First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578-1799. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1985.

John M. Golby, The Civilisation Of The Crowd : Popular Culture In England, 1750-1900. New York : Schocken Books, 1985.

Paul Hazard,The European Mind, 1680-1715. New York: World Pub. Co., 1967.

Paul Hazard, European Thought In The Eighteenth Century, From Montesquieu To Lessing. London, Hollis & Carter, 1954.

J. C. Hilson, M. M. B. Jones, and J. R. Watson, Eds. Augustan Worlds : New Essays In Eighteenth-Century Literature. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1978.

Samuel Lynn Hynes, English Literary Criticism: Restoration And 18th Century. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1963.

Howard Mumford Jones, Revolution & Romanticism. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974.

Paul J. Korshin, Typologies In England, 1650-1820. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Louis A. Landa, Essays In Eighteenth-Century English Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Frank Edward Manuel, The Age Of Reason. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1951.

Thomas E.Maresca, Epic To Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974.

Joseph Anthony Mazzeo, Reason And The Imagination; Studies In The History Of Ideas, 1600-1800. New York, Columbia University Press, 1962.

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor, Romanticism & Gender. New York : Routledge, 1993.

Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb, The Birth Of A Consumer Society: The Commercialization Of Eighteenth-Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.

Henry Knight Miller, Eric Rothstein, and G. S. Rousseau, Eds. The Augustan Milieu: Essays Presented To Louis A. Landa. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1970.

Maximillian E. Novak, Eighteenth-Century English Literature. New York : Schocken Books, 1984.

Felicity Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject : Gender And Ideology In Eighteenth-Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Felicity Nussbaum, The Brink Of All We Hate: English Satires On Women, 1660-1750. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.

Ronald Paulson, Popular And Polite Art In The Age Of Hogarth And Fielding. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979.

Martin Price, To The Palace Of Wisdom; Studies In Order And Energy From Dryden To Blake. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964.

Ricardo Quintana, Two Augustans : John Locke, Jonathan Swift. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

Isabel Rivers, Ed. Books And Their Readers In Eighteenth-Century. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1982.

Pat Rogers, Eighteenth Century Encounters : Studies In Literature And Society In The Age Of Walpole. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1985.

Pat Rogers, Literature And Popular Culture In Eighteenth Century England. Totowa: Barnes & Noble, 1985.

Bernard Nicholas Schilling, Essential Articles: For The Study Of English Augustan Backgrounds. Hamden: Archon Books, 1961.

Janet M. Todd, Sensibility : An Introduction. New York : Methuen, 1986.

Robert W. Uphaus, The Impossible Observer : Reason And The Reader In 18th Century Prose. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1979.

Basil Willey, The Eighteenth Century Background; Studies On The Idea Of Nature In The Thought Of The Period. New York: Columbia university press, 1953.

Earl R. Wasserman, Ed., Aspects Of The Eighteenth Century. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1965.

Charles Henry Wilson, England's Apprenticeship, 1603-1763. New York: Longman, 1984.

 

 

Perez Zagorin, Culture And Politics From Puritanism To The Enlightenment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Bibliographies:

Frederick M. Link, English drama, 1660-1800 : a guide to information sources. Gale Research.

Carl J. Stratman, David G. Spencer, and Mary Elizabeth Devine, Restoration and eighteenth century theatre research; a bibliographical guide, 1900-1968. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971.

Studies:

Paula R. Backscheider, Spectacular politics: theatrical power and mass culture in early modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Richard W. Bevis, English drama : restoration and eighteenth century,1660-1789. New York: Longman, 1988.

Richard W. Bevis, The Laughing Tradition : Stage Comedy In Garrick's Day . Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

L. W. Conolly, The Censorship Of English Drama, 1737-1824. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1976.

James E. Cox, The Rise Of Sentimental Comedy. New York: The Folcroft Press, 1969.

John T. Harwood, Critics, Values, And Restoration. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.

Robert D. Hume, The Development Of English Drama In The Late Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.

Robert D. Hume, The London Theatre World, 1660-1800. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.

Jean B. Kern, Dramatic Satire In The Age Of Walpole, 1720-1750. Ames : Iowa State University Press, 1976.

Joseph Wood Krutch, Comedy And Conscience After The Restoration. New York, Columbia University Press, 1949.

John Clyde Loftis, The Politics Of Drama In Augustan England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

John Clyde Loftis, Comedy And Society From Congreve To Fielding. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959.

John Clyde Loftis, Sheridan And The Drama Of Georgian England. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1977.

John Clyde Loftis, Restoration Drama: Modern Essays In Criticism. New York, Oxford University Press, 1966.

Earl Roy Miner, Restoration Dramatists; A Collection Of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.

John Leslie Palmer, The Comedy Of Manners. New York, Russell & Russell, 1962.

Eric Rothstein, Restoration Tragedy: Form And The Process Of Change. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Bibliographies:

Jerry C. Beasley, English Fiction, 1660-1800 : A Guide To Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978.

Robert Donald Mayo, The English Novel In The Magazines, 1740-1815. With A Catalogue Of 1375 Magazine Novels And Novelettes. Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1962.

Andrew Block, The English Novel, 1740-1850; A Catalogue Including Prose Romances, Short Stories, And Translations Of Foreign Fiction. London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1961.

Robert Donald Spector, The English Gothic : A Bibliographic Guide To Writers From Horace Walpole To Mary Shelley. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography. New York, Russell & Russell, 1964.

Studies:

J.M. Armistead, The First English Novelists : Essays In Understanding: Honoring The Retirement Of Percy G. Adams. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

Joseph F.Bartolomeo, A New Species Of Criticism : Eighteenth-Century Discourse On The Novel. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994.

Jerry C.Beasley, Novels Of The 1740s. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982.

Harold Bloom, Eighteenth-Century Fiction. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

Lennard J. Davis, Factual Fictions: The Origins Of The English Novel. New York : Columbia University Press, 1983.

Robert Bechtold Heilman, America In English Fiction, 1760-1800; The Influences Of The American Revolution. New York, Octagon Books, 1968.

Ira Konigsberg, Narrative Technique In The English Novel : Defoe To Austen. Hamden: Archon Books, 1985.

Michael McKeon, The Origins Of The English Novel, 1600-1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Ronald Paulson, Satire And The Novel In Eighteenth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

Clive T. Probyn, English Fiction Of The Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789. New York: Longman, 1987.

John J. Richetti, Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739. Oxford: Clarendon P. 1969.

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Desire And Truth : Functions Of Plot In Eighteenth-Century English Novels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Janet M Todd, Women's Friendship In Literature. New York : Columbia University Press, 1980.

Ian Watt, The Rise Of The Novel; Studies In Defoe, Richardson, And Fielding. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Bibliographies:

Donald C. Mell, English Poetry, 1660-1800: A Guide To Information Sources. Detroit: Gale Research, 1982.

Studies:

Adams, Percy G. Graces Of Harmony : Alliteration, Assonance, And Consonance In Eighteenth-Century British Poetry. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1977.

John Arthos, The Language Of Natural Description In Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1949.

Robert Arnold Aubin, Topographical Poetry In XVIII-Century England. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1936.

Richmond P. Bond, English Burlesque Poetry, 1700-1750. Russell & Russell, 1964.

Cecil Victor Deane, Aspects Of Eighteenth Century Nature Poetry. New York, Barnes & Noble, 1968.

Oswald Doughty, English Lyric In The Age Of Reason. New York: Russell & Russell, 1971.

Jean H. Hagstrum, The Sister Arts; The Tradition Of Literary Pictorialism And English Poetry From Dryden To Gray. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

John Dixon Hunt, The Figure In The Landscape : Poetry, Painting, And Gardening During The Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Donald C. Mell and David M.Vieth, Eds., Contemporary Studies Of Swift's Poetry. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981.

David B. Morris, The Religious Sublime; Christian Poetry And Critical Tradition In 18th-Century England. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972.

Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Newton Demands The Muse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946.

Isabel Rivers, The Poetry Of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study Of Poets And Public Affairs From Jonson To Pope. Cambridge: Rivers Press Ltd, 1973.

Edward Douglas Snyder, The Celtic Revival In English Literature, 1760-1800. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1923.

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, The Insistence Of Horror. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.

Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks, The Poetry Of Vision: Five Eighteenth-Century Poets. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Jeffry B. Spencer, Heroic Nature; Ideal Landscape In English Poetry From Marvell To Thomson. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973.